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UNICIPAL CODE 



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WILMETTE PARK DISTRICT 



1916. 



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MUNICIPAL CODE 

OF 



Wilmette Park District 



Revised and codified by George W . Hess 
Attorney for the District 



Published by authority of the 

Board of Commissioners of Wilmette Park 
District 



Also 

The Park District Act of 1895 and other laws 

relating to Park Districts 

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WILMETTE PARK DISTRICT 

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 

Louis K. Gillson Term expires 1917 

706 Forest Avenue. Phone 25. 

Floyd L. Bateman Term expires 1918 

735 Michigan Avenue. Phone 1259. 

William D. Matthews Term expires 1919 

1521 Lake Avenue. Phone 828-J. 

Major E. J. Vattmann Term expires 1920 

1733 Lake Avenue. Phone 1183. 

Horace G. Drury Term expires 1921 

622 Central Avenue. Phone 41. 

OFFICERS 

Louis K. Gillson President 

H. W. Hopp Secretary 

225 Linden Avenue. Phone 1404. 
F. J. Scheidenhelm Treasurer 

804 Forest Avenue. Phone 14. 
George W. Hess Attorney 

832 Forest Avenue. Phone 57. 

B. E. Gage Supervising Engineer 

W. P. Matthews Supt. of Police cx-officio 

COMMITTEES 

Finance 

H. G. Drury F. L. Bateman 

Park 
F. L. Bateman W. D. Matthews 

Judiciary 

Major E. J. Vattmann W. D. Matthews 

Police 

W. D. Matthews F. L. Bateman 



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The Wilmette Park District includes all of 
< the Village of Wilmette, together with the 
tract of land lying North of the Village Limits 
and East of Tenth St. and the tract bounded 
on the South and East by the Village Limits, 
on the West by the C. & N. W. R. R. and on 
the North by Kenilworth. 

The District is a Municipal Corporation and 
was organized in accordance with the provi- 
sions of an Act of the Legislature of Illinois 
entitled "An Act to Provide for the Organiza- 
tion of Park Districts and the Transfer of Sub- 
merged Lands to those Bordering on Navig- 
able Bodies of Water," approved June 24, 1895, 
in force July 1, 1895, and amendments thereto. 

The Election at which the organization was 
adopted and the First Board of Commissioners 
elected was held January 14, 1908, and the dec- 
laration of the result thereof was made by an 
order of the County Court of Cook County, 
entered January 17, 1908. The first meeting 
of the Board of Commissioners was held Feb- 
ruary 17, 1908. 

The Wilmette Park District has under its 
control three Public Parks, as follows: 

1. The Park lying East of Michigan Ave. 
and extending from the North line of Lake 
Ave. to a point about 75 feet North of Forest 
Ave. 

2. The Park at the entrance to the Harbor 
of the Sanitary District of Chicago extending 
East from Sheridan Road and Michigan Ave. 
and Northward to a line 82 feet North of 
Washington Ave. Containing about 25 acres. 

3. The Park at Lake Ave., 15th St. and 
Park Ave. 

The Park District also has control of the 



triangular piece of land bounded by Lake Ave., 
11th St. and Wilmette Ave., and the triangular 
tract at the junction of Michigan Ave. and 
Sheridan Road just North of the bridge, and 
also land on both sides of the channel as far 
South as Linden Ave. 



AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE 
PRINTING AND PUBLISHING OF THE 
MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE WIL- 
METTE PARK DISTRICT. 

BE* IT ORDAINED by the Board of Com- 
missioners of WILMETTE PARK DIS- 
TRICT: 

§1. That the Ordinances governing the 
WILMETTE PARK DISTRICT, as revised 
and codified by George W. Hess, be and the 
same are hereby adopted and ordered printed 
and published by authority of the Board of 
Commissioners of WILMETTE PARK DIS- 
TRICT in book form, to be entitled and 
known as "The Municipal Code of the Wil- 
mette Park District." 

§2. This Ordinance shall be in force from 
and after its passage. 

COUNTY OF COOK ) 
STATE OF ILLINOIS j ss - 

I, Harry W. Hopp, Secretary of WIL- 
METTE PARK DISTRICT, do hereby cer- 
tify that the foregoing is a true and correct 
'copy of an Ordinance concerning the print- 
ing and publishing of the Municipal Code of 
the Wilmette Park District, adopted and 
passed by the Board of Commissioners of the 
WILMETTE PARK DISTRICT, on the 
ninth day of October, 1916; also that said Ordi- 
nance so adopted was filed by me in the office 
of the Secretary of the WILMETTE PARK 
DISTRICT on the ninth day of October, 1916, 



all of which appears by the files, papers and 
records of the District. 

I further certify that I am the keeper of the 
records, papers and ordinances of said WIL- 
METTE PARK DISTRICT. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set 
my hand and affix the Corporate Seal of said 
WILMETTE PARK DISTRICT, this ninth day 
of October, 1916. 

Harry W. Hopp, 
Secretary Wilmette Park District. 

(Seal of Wilmette Park District) 

Published and issued in book form on the 
Twenty-fifth day of October, 1916. 



MUNICIPAL CODE 



WILMETTE PARK DISTRICT 



An Ordinance revising, consolidating, and 
codifying the General Ordinances of the Wil- 
mette Park District. 



Be it ordained by the Board of Commission- 
ers of Wilmette Park District, as follows: 



CHAPTER I. 
Executive Department 

§1. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Wil- 
mette Park District shall commence on the first 
day of April and end on the 31st day of March 
next thereafter. 

§2. Meetings of Board. The regular meet- 
ings of the Board shall be held on the second 
Monday of each month. The first regular 
meeting in April shall be considered the annual 
meeting. 

§3. Special Meetings. Special meetings may 
be called by the President whenever he shall 
deem it necessary, and in case of his absence 
from the District, by any two commissioners. 
All business of whatever nature or description 
may be taken up and disposed of at special 
meetings. Written or printed notices shall be 
given by the Secretary by mail to each com- 
missioner, of the time and place of each special 
meeting, but such notice need not contain 
the subject matter of the meeting. 

§4. Quorum. A majority of the commis- 
sioners shall constitute a quorum for the trans- 
action of business. 

§5. Secretary and Treasurer Appointed An- 
nually. The Secretary and Treasurer shall be 
appointed at the regular annual meeting and 
shall hold office, unless sooner removed, for 
the term of one year, and until their successors 
are appointed and qualified. 

§6. Duties of Secretary. The Secretary 
shall keep the corporate seal and affix the same 
to all papers which require it. He shall keep 
all records and documents belonging to the 
District, give notice of and attend all meetings 



of the Board and keep a full record of the pro- 
ceedings in the journal. He shall also perform 
such other duties as may be required of him by 
law, or by the ordinances or resolutions of the 
Board. 

§7. Ordinances to be Recorded. All ordi- 
nances passed by the Board shall be recorded 
by the Secretary in a book to be kept for 
that purpose, and if any ordinances require 
publication, he shall cause the same to be 
duly published. 

§8. Yeas and Nays. The "yeas" and "nays" 
shall be taken upon the passage of all ordi- 
nances and upon all propositions to create any 
liability or for the expenditure or appropriation 
of money, and in all cases at the request of any 
commissioner, which shall be entered upon the 
journal of the proceedings. 

§9. Duties of Treasurer. The Treasurer 
shall receive all the moneys belonging to the 
District and shall pay the same out only upon 
warrants signed by the President and counter- 
signed by the Secretary in form to be ap- 
proved by the Board. He shall submit to the 
annual meeting a detailed report showing the 
receipts and disbursements of money during 
the preceding year. Before entering upon his 
duties he shall give a bond in such amount, and 
upon such conditions, as the commissioners 
may deem necessary. 

§10. Attorney. There shall be appointed at 
the annual meeting an Attorney, who shall 
have charge of all litigation to which the com- 
missioners, or the District, shall be a party, 
and shall draft all instruments required by 
the Board, and give opinions on all questions 
referred to him by the Commissioners. 



§11. Supervising Engineer. There shall be 
appointed at the annual meeting a Supervising 
Engineer, who shall be the executive officer in 
charge of all the properties, real and personal, 
belonging to the District and used in con- 
nection with the parks, or any of them, and 
the waters over which the District has juris- 
diction, and he shall make such rules and regu- 
lations, not inconsistent with the laws of the 
State or the ordinances of the District, as he 
may deem necessary, for the use of the parks 
by the public and the management thereof by 
the employes of the District, which rules and 
regulations shall be reported to the Board, and 
shall be and continue in force from the time 
of the making thereof by him until altered or 
repealed by himself or the Board. He shall 
appoint such assistants and employees as the 
Board may authorize, and prescribe their du- 
ties, and he shall have power to remove or 
suspend such assistants and employees as he 
shall appoint. 

§12. Committees. A Finance Committee, a 
Judiciary Committee, a Committee on Parks 
and a Committee on Police shall be appointed 
by the President, with the approval of the 
Board, at each annual meeting, whose duties 
shall be such as usually pertain to such com- 
mittees and as shall from time to time be 
imposed upon them by the Board. The Com- 
missioner first named shall be the Chairman 
of the Committee. The President, ex-officio, 
shall be a member of all Committees. 

§13. Officer May be Removed. Any officer 
appointed may be suspended or removed by 
the Commissioners, and all vacancies shall be 
filled by them. 

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§14. Salaries of Officers. The salaries of all 
officers shall be fixed at the regular annual 
meeting in April, and shall be payable semi- 
annually. 

§15. Bonds of Officers. Before entering up- 
on their respective duties, all officers appointed 
by the Board, including all policemen, may be 
required to give bonds in such amounts as the 
Board may determine, conditioned upon the 
faithful performance of the duties of their re- 
spective offices. 

§16. Corporate Seal. The Seal heretofore 
provided and used by the District, the impres- 
sion of which is 1% inches in diameter with 
"Wilmette Park District, Organized 1908" be- 
tween concentric rings upon the margin and 
the words "Corporate Seal" within the inner 
circle, shall be and hereby is established and 
declared to have been and now to be the Seal 
of the Wilmette Park District. 

CHAPTER II. 
Police Department 
§17. Police Force. The police force of the 
District shall be under the immediate control 
of the Committee on Police, and the Chair- 
man of said Committee shall be ex-officio Su- 
perintendent of Police of the District. The 
said police force shall consist of the Commis- 
sioners, the Supervising Engineer, the Secre- 
tary, Treasurer, Attorney and such number of 
policemen, with such rank and title, as shall 
from time to time be appointed by the Board. 
All policemen shall be subject to the direction 
of the Superintendent of Police and each of 
the Commissioners. The Superintendent of 
Police or any Commissioner may suspend any 

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policeman, reporting such action at the next 
meeting of the Board for its approval. 

§18. Special Policemen. In case of an emer- 
gency the President of the Board or Superin- 
tendent of Police may appoint such special 
policemen as he may consider necessary, who, 
during the time of their service, shall have the 
same power and authority as members of the 
regular force. All such appointments shall be 
reported to the next meeting of the Board and 
shall not continue beyond such meeting unless 
authorized by the Board. 

§19. Duties of Police. The members of the 
police force shall be conservators of the peace 
within and upon the parks, boulevards, drive- 
ways, and properties controlled by the Wil- 
mette Park District, and shall have power, and 
it shall be their duty to make arrests on view 
of the offense, or upon warrants, for violation 
of any of the penal ordinances of the District, 
or for any breach of the peace, and shall take 
all persons so arrested before some court of 
competent jurisdiction in the Wilmette Park 
District. In case no court is in session, the 
person so arrested may be detained in any 
police station of the Village of Wilmette, until 
such person so arrested can be brought before 
such court. 

§20. Release of Offenders on Bond. Any 
member of the police force of said Wilmette 
Park District, having arrested any person for 
an alleged violation of any Ordinance of said 
District, may in his discretion, permit such per- 
son to give recognizance with or without 
surety, to be approved by such police officer 
in the sum of Two Hundred Dollars, for the 
appearance of such arrested person before 

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a justice of the peace or police magistrate, 
to be named in said recognizance, at a time to 
be prescribed therein, which recognizance when 
executed shall be forthwith filed with the 
proper justice of the peace or police magistrate, 
and the case properly docketed before said 
official. 

§21. Pledges for Appearance. In place of 
special bail, money or personal property of 
sufficient value to satisfy the probable judg- 
ment or fine and costs, may, in the discretion 
of the court, or officer making the arrest, be 
taken; in which case, if taken by .the court an 
endorsement, pledging the property taken for 
the appearance of the defendant at a certain 
time and place before a certain police magis- 
trate or justice of the peace, shall be put upon 
the back of the warrant or complaint and 
signed by the person under arrest; if taken by 
the officer making the arrest, the defendant 
shall sign a pledge in a form to be provided by 
the Commissioners and upon receiving such 
property and pledge, the officer making the 
arrest may permit the person arrested to go 
free. 

§22. Collection of Judgment. Upon the trial 
of any cause in which special bail shall have 
been given, if the defendant shall be found 
guilty, judgment shall be rendered against both 
principal and surety (in the special bail) for 
the amount of the fine assessed by the court 
or jury, and all costs that may have accrued. 
In case personal property or money were 
pledged in lieu of special bail, and judgment is 
rendered against the defendant, execution shall 
issue, and said money be applied in satisfaction 
thereof, or said property be sold under it. Ex- 

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emption rights shall be waived by making such 
pledge of said property. 

§23. Place of Detention. In case of an 
arrest the person arrested may be detained in 
any police station in the Village of Wilmette 
within the Wilmette Park District, or any safe 
place, until such person so arrested can be 
brought before a magistrate or justice of the 
peace for trial without unnecessary delay. 

§24. Commitment. In all cases where judg- 
ment shall be rendered by the police magis- 
trate, or any justice of the peace, or com- 
petent court as aforesaid, in favor of said 
District against any person or persons con- 
victed of a violation of any of the ordinances 
of said District, such person or persons so 
convicted shall be committed to the county jail 
of Cook County, Illinois, to the House of Cor- 
rection of the City of Chicago, or any police 
station of the Village of Wilmette or other 
place provided for the incarceration of offend- 
ers in such cases, and be imprisoned therein 
for failing, neglecting, or refusing to pay any 
fines, forfeitures, penalties or costs which may 
be adjudged against such person or persons, 
and shall be required to work at such labor 
as his or her strength will permit within and 
without said place of imprisonment, not to ex- 
ceed ten hours each day; and for* such work 
the person so employed, or worked, shall be 
allowed, exclusive of his or her board, the sum 
of fifty cents for each day's work on account 
of such fine, forfeiture, or penalty and costs, 
until such fine, forfeiture, or penalty and costs 
be fully satisfied; provided, no such imprison- 
ment shall continue longer than six months for 
any one offense. And in such case, whether by 

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satisfaction as aforesaid, or by the expiration 
of six months from the commencement of such 
imprisonment, the keeper of said place of im- 
prisonment shall endorse on the writ of com- 
mitment, "Satisfied in full by imprisonment" 
and discharge such person or persons from his 
custody. 

§25. Collection of Fines. All fines, forfeit- 
ures, penalties and costs imposed against any 
person or persons by any of the ordinances of 
said District for the breach thereof, may be 
recovered before the police magistrate or any 
justice of the peace of said Cook County, by 
action of debt in the name of "The Wllmette 
Park District," and judgments may be ren- 
dered thereon and collected by execution or 
other process, as other judgments of justices 
of the peace are rendered and collected; and 
such fines, forfeitures and penalties, when col- 
lected, shall be paid over to the treasurer, for 
the use of said Park District, within five days 
from the time of the receipt thereof by such 
police magistrate or justice of the peace and 
every such police magistrate or justice of the 
peace shall make a report in writing to the board 
at the last regular meeting in each fiscal year, 
showing a record of all fines, forfeitures and 
penalties by him collected, and no such police 
magistrate or justice of the peace shall remit 
any fine, forfeiture or penalty imposed upon 
any person or persons wherein the said Dis- 
trict is a party plaintiff, or in any wise inter- 
ested, without the written consent of the board. 



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CHAPTER III. 
Penal Regulations. 

§26. Sleeping or Making Fires. No person 
shall sleep in any park or on any boulevard. 
No person shall swing, occupy or use any 
hammock, or light or make use of any fire, in 
any park or on any boulevard, except such por- 
tions thereof as may be designated by the Com- 
missioners for such purposes and then under 
such regulations as may be prescribed. 

§27. Distributing or Posting Bills. No per- 
son shall display, distribute, cast, throw or 
place any placard, hand bill, pamphlet, circular, 
advertisement or notice in any park or upon 
any boulevard and no person shall post or affix 
any placard, hand bill, pamphlet, circular, ad- 
vertisement or notice on any tree, lamp-post, 
hydrant, curbstone, coping, flagstone, fence, 
wall, bridge, bench, building or other con- 
struction or property in any park or upon any 
boulevard. 

§28. Defacing Trees or Other Property. No 
person shall cut, break, climb on, or in any way 
injure or deface any tree, shrub, plant, turf, 
grass, lamp-post, hydrant, curbstone, coping, 
flagstone, fence, wall, bridge, bench, building 
or other construction or property in any park 
or upon any boulevard. 

§29. Killing Birds or Robbing Nests. No 
person shall kill or wound or attempt to kill 
or wound any bird or animal or molest or rob 
any nest of any bird or animal in any park or 
upon any boulevard. 

§30. Begging. No person shall beg or so- 
licit alms in any park or upon any boulevard 
and no person who is diseased, maimed, mu- 

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tilated, or deformed, so as to be an unsightly 
or disgusting object or an improper person to 
be allowed in public places, shall expose him- 
self to public view in any park or upon any 
boulevard. 

§31. Breach of the Peace. No person shall 
make, aid, or countenance or assist in making 
any improper noise, riot, disturbance, breach of 
the peace, or diversion tending to a breach of 
the peace, within any park or upon any boule- 
vard or be guilty of any disorderly conduct 
therein or thereon, or collect, with other per- 
sons, in bodies or crowds for unlawful pur- 
poses, or for any purpose to the annoyance or 
disturbance of citizens or travelers. 

§32. Intoxicated Persons. No intoxicated 
person shall be allowed in any park or upon 
any boulevard. 

§33. Obscene Language — Games of Chance. 
No person shall use abusive, insulting or ob- 
scene language, or language calculated to oc- 
casion a breach of the peace, or tell fortunes, 
play at games of chance or do any indecent 
act, or manage, use or practice with intent to 
cheat or defraud another, any game or device 
whatever, in any park or upon any boulevard. 

§34. Indecent Books or Pictures. No per- 
son shall exhibit, sell or offer to sell, give away 
or offer to give away, or have in his possession, 
with or without intent to sell or give away in 
any park or upon any boulevard, any obscene 
or indecent book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, 
lithograph, engraving, picture, daguerreotype, 
photograph, stereoscopic picture, model, cast, 
instrument or any article of indecent or im- 
moral use. 

§35. Indecent Acts. No person shall com- 

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mit any indecent, lewd or filthy act, or utter 
any indecent, lewd or filthy words, or use any 
threatening or obscene language or make any 
threatening or obscene gestures in any park or 
upon any boulevard. 

§36. Appearing in State of Nudity. No per- 
son shall appear in a state of nudity or in a 
dress not belonging to his or her sex or make 
any indecent exposure of his or her person in 
any park or upon any boulevard, and no person 
shall undress in any park, for the purpose of 
bathing in Lake Michigan, except in such build- 
ings as may be provided for that purpose, and 
no person shall appear in bathing suits except 
upon the beach and then only on such portion 
thereof as may be set apart for that purpose. 

§37. Intoxicating Liquors. No person shall 
take or carry into, or upon any park any beer, 
ale, wine, brandy, gin, whiskey or any intoxi- 
cating liquor of any description, or shall, within 
any such park drink or have in his possession 
any of the drinks or liquors aforesaid. 

§38. Dogs. The running at large of dogs is 
hereby prohibited within the parks, or on or 
along any boulevard, and no owner of any dog 
shall permit the same to run at large contrary 
to the provisions of this section. It shall be 
the duty of all park policemen to take up and 
impound any dog found so running at large, 
in the place or places provided for such pur- 
poses by the ordinances of the Village of Wil- 
mette; said dog to be dealt with in accordance 
with the ordinances of said village relating to 
the impounding of dogs. The word "dog" 
whenever used in this section, shall mean and 
intend a female as well as a male dog. A dog 
shall be considered to be running at large 

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within the provisions of this section unless held 
in control by a suitable leash. 

§39. Picnics. No picnics shall be held in any 
park without a permit from the Board of Com- 
missioners, or the Chairman of the Park Com- 
mittee, nor shall any body of persons congre- 
gate in such park for the purpose of eating 
lunch, or serving meals therein, without a like 
permit. 

§40. Hawking or Peddling. No person shall 
sell, or offer or expose for sale, any article 
or thing in any park or any boulevard or do 
any hawking, peddling or soliciting therein or 
thereon, without a permit from the Board of 
Commissioners. 

§41. Roller Skating. Roller skating on any 
of the walks or upon any concrete work in 
any park is hereby prohibited. 

§42. Carrying Away Sand or Gravel. No 
person shall take or carry away sand, gravel 
or soil from the beach in front of any of the 
parks of the Wilmette Park District, or from 
the shore or bed of Lake Michigan, or from 
any place under the jurisdiction of the Com- 
missioners of the Wilmette Park District, with- 
out the permission of the Board. And no per- 
son shall dig holes in the sand unless the same 
are completely filled and re-covered, before 
leaving the beach. 

§43. Smoke from Automobiles. No person 
shall cause or permit any automobile to emit 
smoke, vapor or offensive odors in any park 
or upon any boulevard. 

§44. Vehicles. The term vehicles as used 
in this ordinance shall include each and every 
form of sleigh, sled, velocipede, baby carriage, 
hand cart, carriage, buggy, bicycle, motor 

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cycle, automobile and each and every machine 
on wheels used for the conveyance of persons 
and things, whether such vehicle be operated 
or propelled by muscular or other power. All 
vehicles while in motion shall keep to the 
right. ^ No person shall permit any vehicle to 
stand in any park or upon any boulevard to 
the obstruction of the way or inconvenience 
of travel. No person shall bring or use any 
vehicle on any boulevard or in any park, ex- 
cept such portions thereof as may be desig- 
nated by the Commissioners for such purpose. 
No vehicle designated or intended for carrying 
goods, wares, merchandise or other articles 
shall be allowed upon any boulevard or in any 
park. And no vehicle shall be allowed in any 
park except upon the driveways, or such places 
as may be designated by the Commissioners or 
the officer in charge, for parking purposes. 

§45. Speed of Vehicles. No automobile, 
autocar, or other similar vehicle, shall be pro- 
pelled or driven upon or along any drive in 
any park or upon any boulevard at a speed 
exceeding twelve miles per hour, and such ve- 
hicle when in motion shall be kept to the right 
and shall observe the rule of the road as laid 
down for all other vehicles. 

§46. Firearms. No person shall fire or dis- 
charge any cannon, gun or fowling piece, pistol, 
sling shot, bow gun, air gun, air pistol or fire- 
arms of any description, or fire, explode, or set 
off any squib, cracker or other thing contain- 
ing powder or other combustible or explosive 
material within any park or upon any boule- 
vard; provided, that the president of the Board 
may, by proclamation, permit the use of fire- 
works or the discharge of firearms on the 

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fourth day of July, and on such other day or 
days as he, in his discretion, may deem proper. 

§47. Resisting Officer. No person shall re- 
sist any member of the police force in the dis- 
charge of his duty, or fail or refuse to obey 
any lawful command of any police officer, or 
in any way interfere with or hinder or prevent 
him from discharging his duty, or offer or en- 
deavor so to do, or in any manner assist any 
person in custody of any policeman to escape, 
or attempt to escape from such custody, or 
rescue any person in custody. 

§48. Games and Sports. No person shall 
engage in any sport, game, amusement or ex- 
ercise in any park or upon any boulevard ex- 
cept such portions thereof as may be designat- 
ed for that purpose by the Commissioners, and 
then under such rules and regulations as may 
be prescribed by the Commissioners. 

§49. Concealed Weapons. No person shall 
carry or wear under his clothes or concealed 
about his person, any pistol, revolver, der- 
ringer, bowie knife, dirk knife or dirk razor, 
dagger, slug-shot, metallic knuckles, or other 
dangerous or deadly weapon, in any park, or 
upon any boulevard. 

§50. Interfering with Employes. No person 
shall interfere with, or in any manner hinder 
any employe of the Wilmette Park District 
while engaged in constructing, repairing or car- 
ing for any portion of the parks or boulevards. 

§51. Disregarding Signs or Notices. No 
person shall go upon any portion of any park 
or boulevard where, by any sign or notice, 
persons are prohibited from going. No person 
shall fish or bathe in the waters of Lake Mich- 
igan under the control of said District, except 

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such portions thereof as may be designated by 
the Commissioners for such purposes and un- 
der such regulations as may be prescribed. 

§52. Rubbish. No person shall deposit, 
dump, throw, cast, lay or place any coal, ashes, 
dust, manure, rubbish, paper, garbage, refuse 
matter or obstructions of any kind in or upon 
any part of the waters or grounds of any park 
or boulevard. No person shall set or place or 
cause to be set or placed, any goods, wares or 
merchandise or property of any kind in any 
park or on any boulevard, to the obstruction 
of travel on such boulevard or use of such park. 

§53. Rules to Be Obeyed. No person shall 
violate or disobey any rule or regulation gov- 
erning the respective parks and boulevards 
adopted by the Board of Commissioners or 
laid down by the officers in charge of the 
respective parks or boulevards, and posted in 
some conspicuous place within such parks or 
upon such boulevards and purporting to be 
made by said Park Authorities, and no person 
shall violate or disobey any rule or regulation 
although the same may not have been posted 
as aforesaid, after having been notified of the 
existence and nature of such rule by any police- 
man or officer of the District, and no person 
shall violate or disobey the directions con- 
tained in any notice relating to the use or 
government of park property and publicly af- 
fixed to or displayed upon any park or boule- 
vard. 

§54. Penalty. Whoever shall violate any of 
the provisions of this chapter, where a specific 
fine has not been provided for, shall, upon 
conviction thereof, be fined not less than one 
dollar, nor more than two hundred dollars, for 
each and every oflfense. 
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CHAPTER IV. 
Construction of Ordinances. 

§55. Words and Phrases. The words and 
phrases following whenever used in any Or- 
dinance shall be construed to be synonymous 
with any of the other words under the same 
head whenever it shall be necessary to the 
proper construction of said Ordinances. 

First: — Board: Park Board: Board of Com- 
missioners: Board of Commissioners of Wil- 
mette Park District. 

Second: — District: Park District: Wilmette 
Park District. 

Third: — Park: Any Park under the jurisdic- 
tion of the Wilmette Park District. 

Fourth: — Boulevard: Any Boulevard under 
the jurisdiction of the Wilmette Park District. 

§56. "Singular" and "Plural" Construed. 
Whenever any words in any ordinance import- 
ing the plural number shall be used in de- 
scribing or referring to any matters, parties or 
persons, any single matter, party or person 
shall be deemed to be included, although dis- 
tributive words may not be used. And, when 
any subject matter, party or person, shall be 
referred to in any ordinance by words import- 
ing the singular number only, or the masculine 
gender, several matters, parties or persons, and 
females as well as males, and bodies corporate 
shall be deemed to be included: Provided, that 
these rules of construction shall not be applied 
to any ordinance which shall contain any ex- 
press provision excluding such construction, 
or where the subject matter or context of such 
ordinance may be repugnant thereto. 

§57. Maximum Fines. Wherever herein^ or 

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in any ordinance heretofore passed or here- 
after to be passed a minimum, but no maxi- 
mum fine or penalty is imposed, the Court may, 
in its discretion, adjudge the offender or of- 
fenders to pay any sum of money not less than 
the minimum fine or penalty so fixed, and not 
exceeding the sum of Two Hundred Dollars. 

§58. But One Punishment for Same Offense. 
In all cases where the same offense may be 
punishable, or shall be created by different 
clauses or sections of the ordinances of the 
Wilmette Park District, the officer or person 
prosecuting, may elect under which to proceed, 
but not more than one recovery or punishment 
shall be had against the same person for the 
same offense. 

§59. Penalty Construed. When in this or 
any other ordinance the doing of any act or 
the omission to do any act or duty is declared 
to be a breach thereof, or unlawful, or pro- 
hibited and there shall be no fine or penalty 
declared for such breach, any person who shall 
be convicted of any such breach shall be ad- 
judged to pay a fine of not less than One Dol- 
lar nor more than Two Hundred Dollars. 

§60. Repeal. All public or general ordi- 
nances, or parts thereof, not included in this 
ordinance, so far as they contravene or con- 
flict with the provisions of this ordinance, and 
particularly an Ordinance relating to police reg- 
ulations and misdemeanors passed on the 26th 
day of July. 1011, and an Ordinance relating to 
hawking and peddling and holding picnics, 
passed on the 7th day of August, 1011, and an 
Ordinance relating to .rules for the Construc- 
tion of Ordinances passed on the 7th day of 
August, 1911, and an Ordinance prohibiting the 

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possession or use of intoxicating liquors passed 
on the 10th clay of July, 1913, are hereby re- 
pealed and all ordinances, orders and resolu- 
tions heretofore adopted by the Board of Com- 
missioners, not repugnant to or inconsistent 
with the provisions of this ordinance, shall con- 
tinue in force and effect the same as if this 
ordinance had not been adopted, except as 
hereinbefore provided. 

§61. Known as Municipal Code. This Or- 
dinance shall be known as the Municipal Code 
6i the Wilmette Park District and shall take 
effect and be in force from and after its pass- 
age and publication as required by law. 

Passed by the Board of Commissioners of 
Wilmette Park District on the Ninth day of Oc- 
tober. 1916, and deposited and filed in the office 
of the Secretary this Ninth day of October, 1916. 
HARRY W. HOPP, 
Secretary of Wilmette Park District. 

Printed and published in book form the 
Twenty-fifth day of October, 1916. 



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PARK DISTRICT ACT 



AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE OR- 
GANIZATION OF PARK DISTRICTS 
AND THE TRANSFER OF SUBMERGED 
LANDS TO THOSE BORDERING ON 
NAVIGABLE BODIES OF WATER. (AP- 
PROVED JUNE 24, 1895. IN FORCE 
JULY 1, 1895.) 

§1. What May Be Organized into a Park 

District. Be It Enacted by the People of 
the State of Illinois, Represented in the Gen- 
eral Assembly, That any territory situated in 
the same county or in two adjoining counties 
under township organization and so lying as 
to form one connected area, no portion of 
which shall be already included in a park dis- 
trict or in a township whose corporate author- 
ities are authorized by law to levy special taxes 
or special assessments to maintain a public 
park, may be organized into a park district 
for the establishment, construction and main- 
tenance of public parks and boulevards in the 
manner following: 

§2. How Park Districts May Be Formed. 
Any one hundred legal voters resident within 
the^ limits of such proposed park district may 
petition the county judge of the county in 
which such territory lies, or if it lies partly in 
two counties then the petition shall be ad- 
dressed to the county judges of each of said 
counties, to cause the question to be submitted 
to the legal voters of such proposed park dis- 
trict, whether they will organize as a park dis- 
trict under this act; such petition shall clearly 
define the territory intended to be embraced in 
such district, and the name of such proposed 

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district, upon the filing of such petition in the 
office of the county clerk of the county or 
counties in which such territory is situated; it 
shall be the duty of the county judge or county 
judges if the proposed park district he partly 
in two counties, to order an election to be held 
in such part of such proposed district as lies 
within his county, and in such order the said 
county judge or judges, as the case may be, 
shall fix the time and place or places within 
the boundaries of such proposed district, at 
which an election may be held to determine 
such question and to elect five commissioners 
to serve as hereinafter provided; and the said 
judge or judges shall name the persons to act 
as judges at such election; and shall give twen- 
ty days' notice thereof by causing notices to 
be posted in five public places within such 
proposed district and by causing said notice 
to be published in one or more papers, if there 
be any published in said district. 

§3. Election. The ballots to be used at 
such election shall be in the following form: 

"For Park District" 

"Against Park District"..^ 

"For Park Commissioners" 



Names 



The judges at such election shall make re- 
turn thereof to the county judge of the county 
in which such election is held, the said judge 
shall canvass such returns and cause a state- 

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ment of the result of such election to be 
entered on the records of the county court. 

When the territory proposed to be organized 
into a park district is situated in more than 
one township, then, at least one polling-place 
shall be located in each township or portion 
thereof included in such territory, and no dis- 
trict shall be organized unless a majority of 
the votes cast in each township or portion 
thereof included in such territory are in favor 
thereof. 

§4. When Proposed District in Two Coun- 
ties. When the proposed district lies within 
two counties the county judges of each of said 
counties shall cause to be transmitted to the 
clerk of the county court of the other county 
in which a part of said proposed district shall 
lie, a copy of such record, which copy, when 
so received shall be spread upon the records 
of the county court receiving the same as the 
return of the vote cast in said county. 

§5. When Deemed a Park District — Com- 
missioners — Powers. If the majority of the 
votes cast in each township in the part of said 
district in each county where the same lies 
partly within two different counties, or if the 
majority of the votes cast in each township in 
said proposed district where the same lies 
wholly in one county, shall be in favor of the 
proposed park district, such proposed park dis- 
trict shall thenceforth be deemed an or- 
ganized park district under this act; and in 
that event the five persons who shall have re- 
ceived the highest number of votes for com- 
missioners cast at said election shall be de- 
clared the commissioners of said district; and 
the said district so organized shall have the 

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name designated and set forth in said petition, 
and by such name and style the same may sue 
and be sued, contract and be contracted with, 
acquire and hold real estate and personal prop- 
erty necessary for corporate purposes and 
adopt a common seal and alter the same at 
pleasure, and such district shall constitute in 
law and equity a body corporate and politic 
and exercise the powers herein specified. All 
courts of this State shall take judicial notice 
of the organization of said park district and of 
the election of said commissioners. 

§6. Qualification of Commissioners — Not to 
Be Interested in Contract — Creation of Debt. 
Each of the commissioners elected in any park 
district created under this act shall be a legal 
voter of and reside within, such district, and 
where the same includes territory lying within 
two counties no more than three of them shall 
be residents of the same county, and they 
shall receive no compensation as such com- 
missioners. It shall be a misdemeanor for any 
commissioner to be directly or indirectly in any 
w r ay pecuniarily interested in any contract or 
work of any kind whatever connected with 
said park district. Neither of said commis- 
sioners nor any person, whether in the employ 
of said board or otherwise, shall have power 
to create any debt, obligation, claim or liabil- 
ity, for or on account of said park district, or 
the moneys or property of the same, except 
with the express authority of said board of 
commissioners, conferred at a meeting thereof 
and duly recorded in a record of its proceed- 
ings. 

§7. Commissioners — Bond — Oath. Each of 
said commissioners before entering upon the 

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duties of his office shall take and subscribe an 
oath to well and faithfully discharge his duties 
as such commissioner and shall give a bond 
in the penal sum of five thousand dollars to 
such park district to be approved by the county 
judge of the county in which such commission- 
er resides, for the faithful discharge of his duty, 
which oath and bond shall be filed in the office 
of the clerk of the county in which such com- 
missioner resides. 

§8. Terms of Commissioners. As soon after 
such board shall be constituted as aforesaid, 
the members thereof shall decide by lot at a 
meeting where all of said members are present 
as to the respective term for which each shall 
hold office; the one drawing the longest term 
shall serve for five years, the one drawing the 
next longest term shall serve for four years, 
the one drawing the next longest term shall 
serve for three years, the one drawing the next 
longest term shall serve for two years and the 
one drawing the shortest term shall serve for 
one year, respectively, from the next annual 
township election after the organization of the 
district in which they are elected, or until their 
successors shall be duly elected and qualified, 
as hereinafter provided. 

§9. Commissioners When to Be Elected — 
Election of — Vacancies in Board. At the sec- 
ond regular township election in April after 
the board of commissioners has been consti- 
tuted as aforesaid and annually thereafter, one 
commissioner shall be elected for the term of 
five years, or until his successor is elected and 
qualified, notice of the time and place or places 
of holding such election shall be given by the 
commissioners of such park district, by post- 
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ing written or printed notices in five of the 
most public places in the district, at least ten 
days prior to the election, and by publishing 
the same in one or more newspapers, if there 
be any published in said district; the election 
shall be conducted in the same manner and the 
vote canvassed and the result declared as for 
township officers. 

At least one polling place shall be located 
in each portion of a township included in any 
park district and separate ballot boxes shall be 
used to receive the ballots cast for park com- 
missioners, and separate returns of the votes 
cast with the ballots thereof shall be made 
to the president of the board of commissioners 
as nearly as may be in the manner now pro- 
vided for making such returns to the town 
clerk, and said board shall within five days 
after such election canvass said returns and 
declare the result of said election and enter a 
record of such canvass and declaration upon 
its records: Provided, however, that this act 
shall not be construed as in any manner 
amending, modifying or repealing any of the 
provisions of an act entitled "An act regulat- 
ing the holding of elections and declaring the 
result thereof in cities, villages and incorpor- 
ated towns in this State," approved June 19, 
1885. Nor shall the provisions of this act apply 
to or affect any city, village or incorporated 
town that has by vote of the electors thereof 
adopted the provisions of the act hereinabove 
mentioned in so far as the provisions of said 
act are in conflict herewith. But where any 
district organized under this act or portion 
thereof shall be located in such city, village or 
incorporated town the election shall be con- 

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ducted and the returns thereof made and de- 
clared in the same manner as is now provided 
where a township or portion thereof is located 
therein, except that any returns to be made to 
the town clerk or the corporate authorities of 
the township shall be made instead to the 
president and the board of commissioners of 
the district. 

Vacancies in the board by reason of removal 
from the district or otherwise may be filled by 
appointment by the remaining members of 
the board; such appointment to continue until 
a successor for the unexpired term has been 
elected and qualified; at the first annual town- 
ship election after such vacancy occurs, a suc- 
cessor for the unexpired term shall be elected. 

§10. Officers of Board. The board of com- 
missioners shall elect from their number a 
president, who shall hold his office for one 
year, or until his successor shall be elected. 
They shall also appoint a secretary and a 
treasurer, neither of whom shall be members 
of the board, prescribe their duties, fix their 
compensation and term of office and require 
such bonds as the commissioners deem nec- 
essary. 

|11. Powers of Commissioners — Violation 
of Ordinances — Police. Tin- commissioners 
elected in any park district organized under 
this act shall constitute the corporate author- 
ities of such district and a majority thereof 
shall constitute a quorum at any meeting there- 
of. They shall have power to pa>s all neces- 
sary ordinances, rules and regulations for the 
proper management and conduct of the busi- 
ness of said board and of said corporation 

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and for carrying into effect the objects for 
which said park district is formed. They shall 
have full power to manage and control all the 
officers and property of said district, and all 
parks, boulevards and driveways maintained 
by such park district, or committed to its care 
and custody. They may by ordinance regulate 
and restrain the use by the public or by in- 
dividuals of any or all such parks, boulevards 
and driveways, and may exclude therefrom 
funeral processions, hearses, traffic teams and 
teaming and all objectionable travel and traf- 
fic, and may prescribe such fines and penalties 
for the violation of ordinances as they shall 
deem proper, not exceeding two hundred dol- 
lars for any one ofTensc, which tines and pen- 
alties may be recovered by suit in the name of 
such park district before any justice of the 
peace in the county in which such violation 
occurred. The procedure in such suits shall 
be the same as that provided by law for like 
suits for the violation of ordinances in cities 
organized under the general laws of this State, 
and offender^ may be imprisoned for non-pay- 
ment of tines and costs in the same manner 
as in such cities. All fines when collected 
shall be paid into the treasury of such park 
district. In addition to the officers above men- 
tioned, said board of commissioners may em- 
ploy such engineers, clerks and other employ- 
ees, including a police force, as may be re- 
quired, and may define and prescribe their 
respective duties and compensation. The park 
commissioners and all police officers appointed 
by them shall be conservators of the peace 
within and upon such parks, boulevards, drive- 
ways and property controlled by such park 

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district, and shall have power to make arrests 
on view of the offense, or upon warrants for 
violation of any of the penal ordinances of 
such park district, or for any breach of the 
peace, in the same manner as the police in such 
cities. (As amended by Act approved April 
22, 1899. In force July 1, 1899.) 

§12. Board to Keep Records— To Be Open 
to Inspection. Said board shall keep a regular 
book of records of all ordinances or other 
proceedings of said board, which book of rec- 
ord shall be open to the inspection of any 
person residing in said district at all reason- 
able and proper times. 

§13. Ordinances, Etc., to Be Evidence. All 
ordinances, orders and resolutions of said 
board may be proved by the certificate of 
its secretary under the seal of the corporation; 
and when printed in book or pamphlet form 
and purporting to be published by the com- 
missioners, such book or pamphlet shall be re- 
ceived as evidence of the passage of such or- 
dinances, orders and resolutions as of the dates 
mentioned in such publication in all courts or 
places without further proof. 

§14. Powers of Park Districts. Any park 
district organized under this act shall have 
power to acquire, lay out, establish, construct 
and maintain parks and boulevards in said dis- 
trict, and provide boating basins in said parks, 
and have full power to control, manage and 
govern the said parks and boulevards and the 
use thereof. It shall also have power to 
sprinkle streets lying within its territory, and 
to take charge of and maintain the parkways 
upon such streets: Provided, however, that 
the power to sprinkle streets and take charge 

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of and maintain the parkways in such streets 
shall not be exercised by such park district 
until the question as to whether or not it shall 
exercise such power shall have been submitted 
to a vote of the people in such district, and 
such question shall be so submitted upon peti- 
tion of fifty (50) owners of property residing 
in such district. Such petition shall be filed 
in the county court and when so filed it shall 
be the duty of the county judge to order an 
election to be held in such district. In such 
order the said judge shall fix the time and 
place or places within such district when such 
election shall be held, and shall name the per- 
sons to act as judges at such election. Twenty 
(20) days' notice shall be given of such elec- 
tion by the posting of notices in five public 
places within such district, or by publication 
in one or more papers, if there be any pub- 
lished in said district. If a majority of the 
votes cast at such election shall be in favor 
of the exercise of the power to sprinkle streets 
and take charge of and maintain the parkways 
as aforesaid, then the said board shall exer- 
cise such power, otherwise it shall not exer- 
cise it. (As amended by act approved May 
13, 1905. In force Tuly 1, 1905.) 

§15. How and What Land Park District 
May Acquire. Said park district shall have 
power to acquire by gift, grant or purchase, or 
by condemnation under the act of eminent do- 
main, any and all real estate, lands, riparian 
estates or rights, and all other property re- 
quired or needed for any such park or boule- 
vard, or for extending, adorning or maintaining 
the same, and located within its territory. 
When condemnation proceedings are had they 

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shall conform as nearly as practicable to such 
proceedings by cities and villages as set out 
in Article 9 of Chapter 24 of the Revised 
Statutes of Illinois and any amendments 
thereto. (As amended by Act approved April 
22, 1899. In force July 1, 1899.) 

§16. When Park District Borders Upon 
Navigable Water, Etc. — Power of Board as to 
Submerged Land, Etc. When any park dis- 
trict created under this act borders upon any 
navigable body of water, the title to the bed 
or submerged land of which is vested in the 
State of Illinois, said district may take pos- 
session of, inclose, fill in, reclaim and protect 
any portion of such submerged land bordering" 
thereon, over which there shall be shoal and 
shallow water not fit for navigation and shall 
have the power to establish, construct and 
maintain parks and boulevards over and upon 
the same, and all right, title and interest of 
the State of Illinois, in and to the bed or 
submerged land of such body of water, so 
taken possession of, enclosed, filled in and re- 
claimed is hereby granted and ceded to such 
park district and the title thereto shall vest 
in such park district to be held for the use 
and benefit of the public as a part of said park 
district for park and boulevard purposes exclu- 
sively, and said district shall have power for 
the purpose of reclaiming such submerged land 
and protecting the same thereafter to construct 
all necessary break-waters, or protection for 
the building and maintenance of such parks 
and boulevards, and the enclosing or reclama- 
tion of such submerged lands. 

Any such submerged lands so enclosed and 
reclaimed as aforesaid shall forever be held 

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and maintained for park and boulevard pur- 
poses and no portion thereof shall ever be 
granted or ceded away by any district for any 
purpose, and in case the same should ever 
cease to be used for park or boulevard pur- 
poses, then the title to the same shall revest 
in the State of Illinois, together with all the 
improvements thereon and the appurtenances 
thereof. 

§17. When District May Pay Damages. 
Whenever the land so taken possession of, en- 
closed, filled in and reclaimed shall lie along 
property not belonging to such district, and 
by the taking possession of, enclosing and fill- 
ing in such submerged land, such property 
shall be shut off from its access to such body 
of water and shall be injuriously affected there- 
by, such district shall pay all damages arising 
to such property therefrom, and in case the 
same can not be agreed upon, they shall be 
ascertained in the manner hereinbefore pro- 
vided for the acquiring of property for such 
district by condemnation proceedings. 

§18. When District Located Along Naviga- 
ble Body of Water— Control and Police. 
Whenever any district organized under this 
act is located along any such navigable body 
of water as aforesaid, the right is hereby given 
to the corporate authorities thereof to take 
charge of, control and police such body of 
water and the land thereunder for a distance 
of three hundred feet along any park, boule- 
vard or pleasure drive constructed by it and 
bordering thereon. 

§19. Not to Interfere with Navigation, Etc. 
Nothing in this act shall be construed as grant- 
ing to any district, the right to interfere with 

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the navigation of any navigable body of water 
or to shut off the access to any public dock 
or landing thereon, or to shut off the access of 
public highways or streets to such body of 
water at reasonable intervals in each munici- 
pality bordering thereon in said district. 

§20. To Levy and Collect a General Tax. 
Any district created under this act is hereby 
empowered to levy and collect a general tax 
on the property in the park district for neces- 
sary expenses of said district and for the con- 
struction and maintenance of the parks, boule- 
vards and other improvements hereby author- 
ized to be made. 

§21. How Board to Determine the Amount 
to Be Levied, Etc. When said district shall be 
located in two counties the board of commis- 
sioners shall determine and certify the amount 
to be levied upon the taxable property lying in 
each county, and return the same to the re- 
spective county clerk of the county in which 
the same is to be levied: Provided, that in 
order to determine the amount to be levied up- 
on the taxable property of that part of the dis- 
trict lying in each county, the board shall as- 
certain from the county clerks of the respective 
counties in which each district lies, the last 
ascertained equalized value, of the taxable 
property of such district lying in their respec- 
tive counties, and then shall ascertain the rate 
per cent required and shall apportion the 
whole amount to be raised between the sev- 
eral parts of the district so lying in the dif- 
ferent counties accordingly. 

§22. Amount of Taxes to Be Levied. All 
such general taxes when collected shall be 
paid over to the treasurer of the board of 

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commissioners, who is authorized to receive 
and receipt for the same, and all taxes author- 
ized to be levied by the corporate authorities 
of any park district created under this act on 
the taxable property in said district, shall be 
levied at the same time and in the same man- 
ner, as nearly as practicable, as taxes are now 
levied for city and village purposes under the 
laws of this State: Provided, The aggregate 
amount of taxes levied for any one year ex- 
clusive of the amount levied for the payment 
of bonded indebtedness or interest thereon 
shall not exceed the rate of four (4) mills on 
each dollar of taxable property in said district 
on the aggregate valuation as equalized for 
State and county taxes for the preceding year. 
§23. When Special Assessment Deemed De- 
sirable. When any improvement to be made 
by said board is local in character and con- 
fined within the limits of said park district, 
and the said board shall deem it advisable that 
the same should be made by special assess- 
ment, it shall have power to proceed under and 
according to the provisions of "An Act con- 
cerning local improvements," approved June 
14, 1897. in force July 1, 1897, and all amend- 
ments thereto so far as the same may apply. 
The same provisions shall apply to the col- 
lection of the assessments by installments and 
for the issuing of b.onds and vouchers there- 
for as are provided in cases of special assess- 
ments of cities and villages in Article 9 afore- 
said and the amendments thereto, and also an 
Act of the General Assembly entitled, "An 
Act to authorize the division of special assess- 
ments in cities, towns and villages into install- 
ments, and authorizing the issuing of bonds 

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to anticipate the collection of deferred install- 
ments," approved June 17, 1893, in force July 
1, 1893. (As amended by Act approved Tune 
24, 1915, in force July 1. 1915.) 

§24. Board of Local Improvements. The 
park engineer, who shall be also ex-officio 
superintendent of special assessments, the 
chairman of the finance committee and the 
president of the said board of trustees shall 
constitute the hoard of local improvements for 
such park district, who shall act as such hoard 
of local improvements without compensation, 
and the secretary of the said hoard of trustees 
shall he ex-officio secretary of said hoard of 
local improvements. (As amended by Act ap- 
proved June 24, 1 ( »15, in force July 1, 1915.) 

§25. Levying and Collecting Assessments. 
The mode of making such special assessments 
and the filing of the assessment roll and pro- 
ceedings thereon shall be the same as provided 
by law for making special assessments for 
local improvements in cities of over fifty 
thousand inhabitants. (As amended by Act 
approved June 24, 1915, in force July 1, 1915.) 

§2(.. Duties of Secretary and Treasurer. 
The secretary of the said hoard of trustees 
and the treasurer of such park district shall 
perform the duties in regard to the collection 
of said assessmenl provided in said Article 9 
to he performed by the city clerk and city 
collector respectively. < \< amended bj 
approved June 24. 1915, in force July 1, 1915.) 

§27. What Provisions Shall Apply to the 
Collection, Etc. The same provisions shall 
apply to the collection of the assessments, by 
installments and for the issuing of honds and 
vouchers therefor as are provided in the cases 

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of special assessments of cities and villages in 
article 9 aforesaid and the amendments there- 
to, and also an act of the General Assembly 
entitled "An Act to authorize the division of 
special assessments in cities, towns and vil- 
lages into installments, and authorizing the 
issue of bonds to anticipate the collection of 
the deferred installments,'' approved June 17 
1893, and in force July 1, 1893. 

§28. Moneys— How Expended, Etc. All 
moneys collected by virtue of such special as- 
sessment shall be paid over to the treasurer 
of the district in which the same is levied, 
and shall be expended only for the improve- 
ment aforesaid, in the portion of the district sit- 
uated in the township in which the same shall 
be levied. 

s- ,,J . The Word "Improvement." The word 
"improvement" as used herein shall include 
the condemnation of property for park and 
boulevard purposi 

§30. Quorum. A majority of the township 
corporate authorities aforesaid shall constitute 
a quorum at any meeting for the transaction 
of any business relating to such special assess- 
ment. 

§31. For the Payment of Land Condemned, 
Etc. For the payment of land condemned or 
purchased for parks or boulevards, for the 
building, maintaining, improving and protect- 
ing of the same and for the payment of the 
expenses incident thereto, said district is 
authorized to issue the bonds of such park 
district and may pledge its property and credit 
therefor to an amount including existing in- 
debtedness of such park district so that the 
aggregate indebtedness of such park district 

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shall not exceed three (3) per centum of the 
value of the taxable property therein, to be 
ascertained by the last assessment for State 
and county taxes previous to the issue from 
time to time of such bonds. 

§32. Issue of Bonds. The issue of bonds 
by said commissioners shall be authorized by 
them only at a regularly convened meeting of 
the board by ordinance duly enacted and of 
record in the record of proceedings of such 
board, and a copy of the same properly certi- 
fied by the secretary shall be filed in the office 
of the clerk of the county wherein such park 
district lies. 

§33. How and When Bonds to be Issued — 
Time to Run. Such bonds shall be issued when 
authorized as aforesaid in the name of the 
park district, to be signed by the president and 
treasurer and countersigned by the secretary, 
with his seal of office affixed; they shall bear 
interest at not exceeding five per cent per 
annum payable semi-annually, and the princi- 
pal shall be payable at such time and place 
as may be determined by the board of com- 
missioners, not exceeding twenty years. The 
commissioners of such park district may sell 
said bonds at not less than par, and the pro- 
ceeds thereof shall be used exclusively for 
the purpose in this act authorized. 

§34. Provision for Payment of Bonds, Etc. 
For the purpose of providing for the payment 
of the interest on such bonds as it falls due, 
and also a sum sufficient to pay and discharge 
the principal thereof at maturity, said park 
district and its corporate authorities are hereby 
authorized, required and directed to appro- 
priate and levy (in addition to other taxes 

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authorized by this act to be by them levied) 
an annual tax upon the taxable property in 
said district sufficient to provide for the said 
principal and interest therein mentioned. 

§35. Public Streets— May Be Taken Charge 
of as a Pleasure Drive or Boulevard — When. 
Any public street, road or highway or portion 
thereof situated within the limits of any park 
district organized under this act may be taken 
charge of by said district and improved and 
maintained by it as a pleasure drive or boule- 
vard; Provided, That the consent of the cor- 
porate authorities having control of such street, 
highway or portion thereof shall be first ob- 
tained, and also the consent in writing of the 
owners of the majority of the frontage of the 
lots and lands abutting on the same. If such 
street, road, highway or portion thereof shall 
have already been set apart as a pleasure 
driveway or boulevard, then such consent of 
said owners shall not be required to set the 
same over to the park district. When such 
street, road or highway is under the charge 
of the highway commissioners of any town- 
ship, they shall be held to be the corporate 
authorities having control of the same whose 
consent shall be obtained as aforesaid. 

§36. When Parks in Cities May Be Placed 
Under Control of Commissioner. Any parks 
or boulevards in any municipality within the 
limits of any park district "created under this 
act may, with the consent of such municipal- 
ity, on the organization of said district, be 
turned over to and placed under the control 
of the commissioners thereof. In any park 
district created under this act, any and all 
lands fronting on a lake, now belonging to or 

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under the control of any city, town or vil- 
lage in said park district, with the riparian 
rights attaching thereto, shall be and are here- 
by appropriated for such park, or parks, or 
boulevards, as are authorized to be made and 
established by this act, with the consent of 
the corporate authorities of such municipality. 

§37. Water and Sewer Pipe. To all munici- 
palities lying within the limits of any park 
district created under this act, is hereby ex- 
pressly reserved the right to lay and repair 
water and sewer pipe under the surface of any 
boulevard or park therein in the same manner 
and to the same extent it could have been 
done before the organization of such park dis- 
trict. 

§38. How Property May Be Annexed — 
Election, Etc. Territory adjoining and in the 
same county with any park district organized 
under this Act may be annexed to and be- 
come a part of such district in the manner 
following: Any one hundred legal voters, resi- 
dents within the territory proposed to be an- 
nexed, may petition the county judge of the 
county wherein land proposed to be annexed 
lies, to cause the question to be submitted to 
the legal voters of such park district and of the 
territory proposed to be annexed, whether 
such territory shall be annexed and become a 
part of the adjoining park district, and the 
petition shall set forth the name of the park 
district and define the limits of the territory 
proposed to be annexed thereto: Provided, 
however, if the legal voters, residents within 
the territory proposed to be annexed are fewer 
than one hundred ( 100) in number, a majority 
of such legal voters, together with a majority 

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of the owners of lands within the territory 
proposed to he annexed, who shall have ar- 
rived at lawful age, and who represent a major 
portion in area of the land within such terri- 
tory, may petition in like manner as above pro- 
vided. Upon the filing of the petition in the 
office of the county clerk of the county in 
which such territory is situated, it shall be 
the duty of the county judge of said county 
to order an election to be held in the terri- 
tory proposed to be annexed, and also in said 
park district, and in such order said judge 
shall fix the time and place or places when 
and where such special election may be held, 
to determine the question of annexation, and 
shall name the persons to act as judges of such 
election, and shall give at least twenty days' 
notice thereof by causing notice to be posted 
in five public places within the territory pro- 
posed to be annexed, and also in live public 
places within such park district. The ballot 
to be used at such election shall be in the 
following form: 

"For annexation." 

"Against annexation." 

The judges at such election shall make re- 
turn thereof to the county judge, who shall 
canvass such returns and cause a statement of 
the result of such election to be entered upon 
the records of the county court, a certified 
copy of which record shall be (by) said com- 
missioners spread upon the records of said 
park district. If a majority of the votes cast 
upon that question at such election in the ter- 
ritory proposed to be annexed shall be for 
annexation; and also if a majority of the votes 
cast upon that question in the park district 

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shall (be) for annexation, then said adjoining 
territory shall thenceforth become and be a 
part of such district, the same as though orig- 
inally included therein. (As amended by Act 
approved June 9, 1909, in force July 1, 1909.) 

§39. Levying and Collecting Special Assess- 
ment. Any park district now or hereafter or- 
ganized under the provisions of an act entitled 
"An act to provide for the creation of pleasure 
driveway and park districts," approved June 
19, 1893, and in force July 1, 1893, may levy 
and collect special assessments in the manner 
provided for in this act. 

§40. Proceedings for Dissolution of Park 
Districts — City Council to Act as Commission- 
ers to Close Up Business. Any park district 
heretofore or hereafter organized under the 
provisions of this Act may be dissolved and 
discontinued upon like petition, proceedings 
and election as is provided in this Act for the 
organization of such park districts; and upon 
such dissolution all commissioners and officers 
of such park district, whether the term or 
terms for which they have been elected or 
appointed, as the case may be, shall have ex- 
pired or not, shall cease to have any power or 
authority, and all parks theretofore established 
by such park district and all other lands owned 
or controlled by such park district, shall vest 
in and shall be controlled by the city, town 
or village wherein such parks and other lands 
are located, and for the purpose of closing up 
the business affairs of such park district, the 
members of the city council, board of trustees 
or town board, as the case may be, of the city, 
village, or town wherein all, or the greater 
part of such park district is located, are hereby 

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constituted the park commissioners of such 
park district and they shall act without com- 
pensation. They shall proceed to close up the 
business affairs of such park district and shall 
have all the powers of the former park com- 
missioners, before said dissolution, that shall 
be necessary therefor, and shall have power to 
levy taxes for the purpose of paying outstand- 
ing debts, obligations or liabilities, and the 
necessary expenses of closing up the business 
of such park district. (As amended by Act 
approved June 24, 1915, in force July 1, 1915.) 



VIOLATIONS OF PARK ORDINANCES- 
PUNISHMENT. 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUN- 
ISHMENT OF PERSONS VIOLATING 
ANY OF THE ORDINANCES OF THE 
SEVERAL BOARDS OF PUBLIC PARK 
COMMISSIONERS IN THIS STATE. 

§1. Be It Enacted by the People of the 
State of Illinois, Represented in the General 
Assembly: That in all actions for the violation 
of any ordinance of any board of public park 
commissioners, organized under any general or 
special law of this State, the first process shall 
be a summons : Provided, however, that a 
warrant for the arrest of the offender may issue 
in the first instance upon the affidavit of any 
person that any such ordinance has been vio- 
lated, and that the person making the com- 
plaint has reasonable grounds to believe the 

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party charged is guilty thereof; and any per- 
son arrested upon such warrant shall, without 
unnecessary delay, be taken before the proper 
judicial officer in the county within which is 
situated the park system under the control 
of any such board of public park commission- 
ers, to be tried for the alleged offense. Any 
person upon whom any fine or penalty shall 
be imposed may, upon the order of the court 
or magistrate before whom the conviction is 
had, be committed to the county jail or the 
city prison, house of correction, or other place 
in said county, provided by such public park 
commissioners, or as may be designated by 
them, for the incarceration of such offenders 
until such fine, penalty and costs shall be fully 
paid: Provided, however, that no such im- 
prisonment shall exceed six months for any 
one offense. Every person so committed shall 
be required to work at such labor as his or 
her strength will permit, within and without 
such prison, house of correction or other place 
provided for the incarceration of such offend- 
ers, as aforesaid, not to exceed ten hours each 
working day; and for such work the person so 
employed or worked shall be allowed, exclusive 
of his or her board, the sum of fifty cents for 
each day's work, on account of such fine and 
costs. 

§2. Whereas, An emergency exists, this Act 
shall be in force from and after its passage. 

Approved and in force December 24, 1907. 



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VIOLATION OF ORDINANCES— HOUSES 
OF CORRECTION. 

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CON- 
FINEMENT IN HOUSES OF CORREC- 
TION OF PERSONS CONVICTED OF 
THE VIOLATION OF ORDINANCES 
OF PUBLIC PARK COMMISSIONERS. 

§1. Be It Enacted by the People of the 
State of Illinois, Represented in the General 
Assembly : That every board of public park 
commissioners in this State shall have full 
power and authority to enter into an agree- 
ment with the legislative authorities of any 
city, town or village in the county in which 
the park system under the control of such 
board of public park commissioners may be 
situated, or with any authorized officer thereof 
in behalf of such city, town or village which 
now has or which may hereafter have a house 
of correction, to receive and keep in said house 
of correction any person or persons who may 
be sentenced or committed thereto by any 
court in such county for the violation of any 
ordinance of said board of public park com- 
missioners, or failure to pay the fine imposed 
for such violation. 

§2. After such agreement shall have been en- 
tered into it shall be the duty of the court find- 
ing any person guilty of the violation of any 
ordinance of any such board of public park 
commissioners punishable by imprisonment to 
sentence the person so found guilty to such 
house of correction, and for the violation of 
any ordinance of such board of public park 

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commissioners punishable by fine, it shall be 
the duty of the court to commit any person 
who shall not forthwith pay any fine so im- 
posed by the said court, to the said house of 
correction, there to be received and kept for 
the time and in the manner prescribed by law, 
and subject to the discipline of said house of 
correction, and it shall be the further duty of 
said court by warrant of commitment duly 
issued to cause such person so sentenced or 
committed to be forthwith conveyed by some 
proper officer to said house of correction. 

§3. It shall be the duty of the officer to 
whom such warrant of commitment is delivered 
to convey such person so sentenced or com- 
mitted to the said house of correction, and there 
deliver such person to the keeper or other 
proper officer of said house of correction, 
whose duty it shall be to receive such person 
so sentenced or committed and to safely keep 
and employ such person for the term men- 
tioned in the warrant of commitment, accord- 
ing- to the laws of said house of correction; 
and the officer thus conveying and so deliver- 
ing the person so sentenced or committed shall 
be allowed such fees, as compensation there- 
for, as are or shall be prescribed or allowed by 
law. 

§4. Whereas, In some of the park systems 
in this State there is no authority for the 
making of the contract hereinbefore author- 
ized, therefore an emergency is declared to 
exist, and this Act shall be in force from and 
after its passage. 

Approved and in force May 25, 1907. 



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INDEX TO MUNICIPAL CODE. 

Section 

Advertisements, prohibited 27 

Air gun, prohibited in parks 46 

Alms, not to be solicited 30 

Attorney, duties of 10 

Automobiles, not to emit smoke or offensive 

odors 43 

Begging, prohibited 30 

Bills not to be posted or distributed 27 

Birds, killing of or robbing nests 29 

Bond of Treasurer 9 

Bonds of Officers 15 

Books, indecent or obscene prohibited 34 

Breach of the Peace 31 

Cash Bonds 21 

Circulars, not to be distributed 27 

Commissioner, may suspend policemen 17 

Committees of Board 12 

Collection of fines 25 

Collection of Judgment 22 

Concealed weapons 49 

Construction of words or phrases 55 

Corporate Seal 16 

Crowds, prohibited 31 

Deadlv weapons, prohibited 49 

Defacing trees or property 28 

Detention of prisoner 19 

Disgusting exposures 30 

Disorderly conduct 31 

Dogs, not to run at large 38 

Dress of opposite sex 36 

Drunkenness, prohibited 32 

Employes, interfering with 50 

Exemptions waived 22 

Finance Committee 12 

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Fine, maximum $200.00 57 

Firearms, prohibited 46 

Fires in parks prohibited 26 

Fireworks, prohibited 46 

Fiscal year 1 

Fortune telling- unlawful 33 

Games and sports 48 

Games of Chance, prohibited 33 

Gravel, not to be removed 42 

Hammocks, not to be hung without permis- 
sion 26 

Hawking, prohibited 40 

House of Correction of Chicago, prisoners 

sent to 24 

Indecent Acts 35 

Indecent Books 34 

Interfering with employes, prohibited 50 

Intoxicating liquors not allowed in park. ...37 
Intoxicated persons not allowed in park... 32 

Judiciary Committee 12 

Language, obscene or abusive prohibited .. .33 
Liquors, intoxicating, not allowed in park. .37 

Meetings of Hoard 2 

Meetings, Special 3 

Notices, must be observed 57 

Nudity, state of, prohibited 36 

Obscene bo< »ks M 

Obscene language, prohibited 

Obstruction of travel 52 

Officer's bonds 15 

Officer may elect under which section to 

proceed 58 

Officers, removal of 13 

( MYicers, salaries 14 

Ordinances to be recorded 7 

Pamphlets, not to be distributed 27 

Park Committee 12 

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Person, exposure of 36 

Personal property may be pledged for ap- 
pearance 21 

Peddling, prohibited 40 

Penalty for violation of ordinances 54 

Penalty, construed 59 

Picnics, prohibited 39 

Place of Detention 23 

Pledge for Appearance, Officer may take... 21 

Pledge, sale of 22 

Police — 

Attempting to escape from 47 

Committee 12 

Duties of 19 

Force 17 

Interfering with 47 

Special 18 

Policeman. 

may be suspended 17 

may release offender on bond 20 

resisting, penalty for 47 

Prisoner, detention of 19 

Quorum 4 

Record of ordinances 7 

Release of offenders on bond 20 

Removal of Officers 13 

Repeal of certain ordinances 60 

Resisting officer 47 

Roller Skating, prohibited 41 

Rubbish, not to be deposited in park 52 

Rules to be obeyed 53 

Rules of construction of ordinances 55 

Salaries of Officers 14 

Sale of Pledge 22 

Sale of articles prohibited in parks 40 

Sand, not to be carried away 42 

Seal, corporate 16 

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Secretary, 

duties of 6 

to record ordinances 7 

appointment of 5 

Shrubs, not to be injured 28 

Signs, must be observed 51 

Singular and plural words construed 54 

Skating, roller, prohibited 41 

Sleeping in parks prohibited 26 

Smoke from autos prohibited 43 

Special meetings 3 

Special police 18 

Speed of vehicles 45 

Superintendent of Police 17 

Superintendent of Police, may suspend po- 
liceman 17 

Supervising Engineer, duties of 11 

Suspension of policemen 17 

Threatening language prohibited 35 

Traffic vehicles prohibited 44 

Travel not to be obstructed 52 

Treasurer — 

Appointment of 5 

Bond 9 

Duties of 9 

Report 9 

Trucks, prohibited in parks 44 

Vehicles 44 

Vehicles — 

Speed of 45 

To keep to right 45 

Waiver of Exemptions 22 

Words and phrases construed 55 

Yeas and Nays 8 



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INDEX TO PARK DISTRICT ACT. 

Section 

Annexation of territory 38 

Board may employ engineers, clerks, etc.. ..11 
Board of local improvements, who consti- 
tutes 24 

Bond of Commissioners to be approved by 

County Judge 7 

Board to fix term of office of Secretary and 

Treasurer 10 

Bonded debt, limit of 31 

Bonds, 

of Commissioners, $5,000 7 

how authorized 32 

how issued 33 

interest not to exceed 5% 33 

when may be issued 31 

Breakwaters, power to construct 16 

Commissioners, 

are conservators of peace 11 

bond of, $5,000 7 

may impose fines and penalties 11 

not to be interested in contracts 6 

power of 11 

qualifications of 6 

term of 8 

to receive no compensation 6 

to take oath 7 

when to be elected 9 

Condemnation, law may be acquired by.... 15 
Contracts, Commissioners not to be inter- 
ested in 6 

Control of District, extends 300 feet into 

lake 18 

Courts to take judicial notice 5 

Damages to be paid riparian owners 17 

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Debt, limit of bonded 31 

Dissolution of Park District 40 

District in two counties 4 

District may fill in submerged land 16 

Election for organization 3 

how conducted 9 

notices of 9 

Funeral processions may be excluded from 

parks 11 

How land may be acquired ' 15 

Improvement, to include condemnation of 

property 29 

Installments and bonds of special assess- 
ments 27 

Judicial notice, courts to take 5 

Navigation, not to be interfered with 19 

Officers of Board 10 

( Ordinances, record to be kept of 12 

Organization of District, how accomplished. 2 

( )rdinances, how proved 13 

Park District, how may be formed 2 

What territory may be included 1 

Parks in Municipality may be turned over 

to District " 36 

Payment for land condemned 31 

Petition for organization, what to contain.. 2 

Police Force, Board may employ 11 

Polling places, where to be located 9 

Powers of Park District 5 

Powers of commissioners 11 

To sprinkle streets 14 

Powers of Park Districts 14 

President to be elected annually 10 

Qualifications of Commissioners 6 

Quorum, majority to constitute 11 

Riparian owners entitled to damages, when. 17 
Record of Ordinances to be kept 12 

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Secretary and Treasurer to perform duties 
of City Clerk and City Collector 26 

Secretary — 

Compensation and bond 10 

To be appointed 10 

Sewer and water pipe, right to lay reserved 
by Municipality 37 

Special Assessment funds to be applied to 
improvement 28 

Special assessments- 
Made by levying 25 

Power to levy 23 

Streets — 

may be taken charge of 35 

sprinkling, power of commissioners 14 

Submerged lands shall not be ceded away.. 16 

Traffic teams may be excluded from parks.. 11 

Taxes — 

Annual to pay bonded debt 34 

Limited to 4 mills 22 

Power to levy 20 

To be paid over to treasurer 22 

Treasurer — 

Compensation and bond 10 

To be appointed 10 

Vacancies in Board to be filled by appoint- 
ment 9 



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